One Family's Stress-Free Organizing Tips

Articles about organizing often seem to involve expensive built-in storage or color-coordinated boxes of some kind, so it was nice to see these home-grown solutions. Don't get us wrong: this family of six (six!) have accomplished a look that is quite posh, but with things like stacking books, vintage crates, steamer trunks, and a chore system for the kiddies.

Our favorite tip was how they uses Irish cigar boxes for cotton swabs. The best pictures are in the print version of the magazine, but you can at least read the article here.